Saturday, 6 June 2015

#9 | Things I Learnt This Week (That I Want To Share) #9

1. CHRISTIANITY | ETHICS | MEDICAL ETHICS

“God did give us reason. He gave us minds in order to understand the world, to understand options and to make real decisions. He didn’t give us reason to create our own world and to create our own authority structures and our own conception of morality.

Here’s a book [Proverbs] that talks a lot about the use of one’s mind, the use of one’s reasoning, the observation and coming to conclusions based upon those observations. But the whole point of that wisdom we are to gain is that we understand ourselves by living in a world we didn’t make and living within a moral order that someone else, namely God, has put into place.

That’s the proper context for our reason to be exercised. God’s given fish the ability to swim, but they need to swim within water.”